Posted on: April 21st, 2008
Filed Under: [ Art y Culture ] [ Tomás' Picks ] [ California ] [ Los Angeles ]
Tags: Chicano
While Los Angeles County celebrates Chicano art with the fabulous “Phantom Sightings” exhibition at LACMA, Orange County deals with its own brown Botticellis the way it always has: with dismissals, ignorance and a can of paint thinner.
Last week, Fullerton City Councilman Shawn Nelson stated during a council meeting that the city should remove a set of 1970s-era murals on a pedestrian overpass spanning a stretch of Lemon Street just south of Valencia Drive. Nelson claimed that the depictions — classic lowriders, sultry girls in sombreros and fedoras, stylish pachucos and the Virgin of Guadalupe — might make people think Fullerton sanctions gang activity. The words “The Town I Live In,” currently emblazoned on a stairwell, are also dangerous, Nelson said; he’s seen gang members sporting them as tattoos. Rubbing out those murals, Nelson insisted, would help the city combat juvenile delinquency.”*
*From: http://www.latimes.com
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